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This week brought the unveiling of the official portraits of Barack and Michelle Obama at the National Portrait Gallery. Each image is both visually striking and laced with symbolic meaning, as well as imbued with the significance of the nation’s first African American presidential couple having selected African American artists to produce their likenesses. The former first lady tapped Amy Sherald, who employs a stylized realism in her portraits of African American subjects and has relatively recently garnered art world acclaim. For his portrait, Barack Obama selected Kehinde Wiley, who’s known for depicting young black people in portraits that echo earlier traditions of painting. The art historian and critic Kobena Mercer considered Wiley’s work in an essay included in the tenth a…